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By: Michael S., Angelica S. & Chris C.
 * __The Twenty-Second Amendment__**

The amendment says that you can-not be a president for more than 2 terms (8 years) and if you serve half a term and another person is elected to be president, you can-not run for office or hold office again. Our amendement was created so that presidents couldn't serve more than two terms. Some peolpe might not have wanted the president to stay in office so they said that they would just not elect him during the next election. The amendement was created by Earl C. Michener of Mighigan. The amendment was proposed on March 21, 1947 and ratified on May 4, 1951. 285 to 121 The 36th state to ratify it was Minnesota, on Febuary 27,1951. Thomas Jefferson had first thought of the idea of the two term limit tradition up in 1804. President Roosevelt lead the congress to make the amendment because he served about 3 1/2 terms, a new record for the amount of trems that a president has ever served. He had died half way through his 4th term, so Vice President Harry Truman served out the rest of the term. On January 3rd, 1947, the 1st day of the congressional segement began. During the segement, congress member Earl C. Michener from Mighigan introduced the amendement calling for limits on presidency. Yes, in 1933, Franklin Delono Roosevelt was voted president, so he served about 3 1/2 terms. He had helped our country out of an economic deppresion and helped lead the U.S. to the end of WWII. He served until 1945. FDR was the only president to serve for more than two termsFrom 1933 all the way to 1945 he served about 3 1/2 presidential terms. He helped our country out of the biggest economic depression ever. The whole country respected him and decided, as a reward, to revote him for a third and fourth term.
 * __Questions & Answers:[[image:http://www.papersculpt.com/Flag.jpg width="340" height="237" align="right" caption="The American Flag"]]__**
 * 1. What does the amendment say?**
 * 2. Why was our amendement created?**
 * 3. Who proposed the amendement?**
 * 4. When was the amendment proposed?**
 * 5. How many congress members voted for the amendement?**
 * 6. What was the state that passed the amendement (the ratification required 36 out of 48 states)?**
 * 7. Who wanted it?**
 * 8. What president lead the congress to make the amendment?**
 * 9. Has any president served mord than two terms?**
 * Franklin Delano Roosevelt**

When the amendment was made, WWII was starting to come to a close (mainly **World War II,** The **Battle of Berlin** April 26-28, 1945) The amendment affects anyone who runs for or is currently the president. The amendment is usefull today because it gives a fair, equal amount of time to be president, so no one can argue that someone else has been president longer (a higher amount of terms) than him. Also, when a president dies, everyone knows how long the Vice President would serve as president.
 * 10. What was going on at the time that the 22nd amendment was made?**
 * 11. Who does the amendment affect?**
 * 12. How is the amendment usefull today?**


 * __Data on Amendment #22:__**

//Term Limits for the President//
 * The 41 States that Ratified the 22nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution[[image:http://www.scanwarewebhost.com/usaMAP.gif width="402" height="230" align="right" caption="Map of the U.S.A."]]**
 * 1. || **Maine** || March 31, 1947 ||
 * 2. || **Michigan** || March 31, 1947 ||
 * 3. || **Iowa** || April 1, 1947 ||
 * 4. || **Kansas** || April 1, 1947 ||
 * 5. || **New Hampshire** || April 1, 1947 ||
 * 6. || **Delaware** || April 2, 1947 ||
 * 7. || **Illinois** || April 3, 1947 ||
 * 8. || **Oregon** || April 3, 1947 ||
 * 9. || **Colorado** || April 12, 1947 ||
 * 10. || **California** || April 15, 1947 ||
 * 11. || **New Jersey** || April 15, 1947 ||
 * 12. || **Vermont** || April 15, 1947 ||
 * 13. || **Ohio** || April 16, 1947 ||
 * 14. || **Wisconsin** || April 16, 1947 ||
 * 15. || **Pennsylvania** || April 29, 1947 ||
 * 16. || **Connecticut** || May 21, 1947 ||
 * 17. || **Missouri** || May 22, 1947 ||
 * 18. || **Nebraska** || May 23, 1947 ||
 * 19. || **Virginia** || January 28, 1948 ||
 * 20. || **Mississippi** || February 12, 1948 ||
 * 21. || **New York** || March 9, 1948 ||
 * 22. || **South Dakota** || January 21, 1949 ||
 * 23. || **North Dakota** || February 25, 1949 ||
 * 24. || **Louisiana** || May 17, 1950 ||
 * 25. || **Montana** || January 25, 1951 ||
 * 26. || **Indiana** || January 29, 1951 ||
 * 27. || **Idaho** || January 30, 1951 ||
 * 28. || **New Mexico** || February 12, 1951 ||
 * 29. || **Wyoming** || February 12, 1951 ||
 * 30. || **Arkansas** || February 15, 1951 ||
 * 31. || **Georgia** || February 17, 1951 ||
 * 32. || **Tennessee** || February 20, 1951 ||
 * 33. || **Texas** || February 22, 1951 ||
 * 34. || **Utah** || February 26, 1951 ||
 * 35. || **Nevada** || February 26, 1951 ||
 * 36. || **__Minnesota__** || __February 27, 1951__ || Resulted in ratification ||
 * 37. || **North Carolina** || February 28, 1951 ||
 * 38. || **South Carolina** || March 13, 1951 ||
 * 39. || **Maryland** || March 14, 1951 ||
 * 40. || **Florida** || April 16, 1951 ||
 * 41. || **Alabama** || May 4, 1951 ||
 * The ratification required 36 out of 48 states. Today ratification would require 38 states.[[image:http://selectsmart.com/images/presidential_seal.gif width="327" height="240" align="right" caption="The seal of the president of the United States"]]


 * __Current Events__**

Should presidents be allowed to serve more than 2 terms? Bills introduced in Congress to repeal 8-year restriction of 22nd Amendment

Posted: October 8, 2006 1:00 a.m. Eastern

"The time has come to repeal the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution, and not because of partisan politics," explained Hoyer. Under the Constitution as altered by the 22nd Amendment, this must be President George W. Bush's last term even if the American people should want him to continue in office. A tradition of presidents serving two terms only began with George Washington. The 22nd Amendment states: "Section 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected president shall not be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term. Both of the Democrats have been working on repealing the 22nd Amendment since the presidency of Bill Clinton.

I think that this article explains the presidential electional problems that the candidates are facing due to this amendment really well. After all, George Bush can not run again and in the election of 2008, we have the first woman running for president and she is very well known. This article helps explain the 22nd amendment very well. -Michael S. To see full article, go to: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52246__

Subject: Hoyer creates Bill trying to abolish 22 Amendment**
 * Date: December 7, 2006

In Washington DC Steny Hoyer a Democratic house member teamed up with other represenatives to create a bill to abolish the constitution's 22 Amendment. In other states people think Bush's succeser will not be as courageous as he. Also going all the way back there have been many great presidents that helped our countries out of the worst of times but were only held to four years as president. For example Abraham Lincon abolished slavery from our country and still his great leagacy ended in two terms. If he served more terms he would have done even greater things for our then growing country. Many people today want to abolish the amendment because they say that if Bush doesn't stay in office the next president will have different veiws on the war. People belive that we need a strong courageous leader like Bush to fight the war. Bush intends to finish the war and end the deaths and terrorist attacks. If a new president comes in with a different veiw on the violence than he/she might pull the troops out of Iraq sending the terrorists back to the United States. Steny Hoyer doesn't agree with Bush's veiws he wants to abolish the amendment for a different reason, so that future presidents who do great things and who are very popular with both major parties can be relected to serve more than two terms.

I think that the Bush supporters are correct because if the presidents succsessor was to pull troops out of Iraq the terrorists would come to the US and devastate our country. I think the amendment should be repealed to keep Bush in office so that he can finish what he started in Iraq. Even if the next president stays in the battle he will not fight it the way that Bush did.

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 * 22 Amendment (Section 1) - No person shall be elected to the office of president more than twice, and no person who has held the office of president, or has acted for one, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected shall not be elected to the office of president more than once. This article shall not effect any person currently holding the office of president nor does it effect a person who may be or will act as president. -**Chris

[|**What's A Biden Supporter To Do?**] Posted by John V. Kjellman January 7, 2008 01:17 PM

It's nearly fish or cut bait time in N.H., and Senator Biden has, as everybody knows, withdrawn from the race, along with Senator Dodd. I'm now forced to make a decision among the remaining Democratic candidates. There is no point to be made in casting a vote for Biden. I believe Senators Clinton, Edwards, and Obama and Governor Richardson each have something positive to offer, and I agree with many of the arguments supporters give for each of the four. The question is, which would make the best president? I believe the answer is Senator Clinton. There is a certain amount of angst in my decision, as it bothers me to see two people who were at the apex of the U.S. Government for eight years ascend again to that high peak for another four or eight years. It's the 22nd Amendment thing, the concept that we don't want any one individual to gather too much political power. I believe the thinking behind the 22nd Amendment applies to husband and wife teams just as much as it does for individuals, but of course the lawyers would say we're stuck with what the words say, not what I or anyone else might propose was the intention of the amendment. Having gotten that off my chest, and having just heard President Clinton discourse for over an hour at Daniel's Restaurant in Henniker, on Senator Clinton's behalf, I believe that of all the candidates, Senator Clinton is our best choice for president. In particular, her views on the way forward in Iraq most closely match mine. Senator Clinton is more organized and disciplined than President Clinton, and she would most likely be a better chief executive than he was. She will tend toward less polling and quicker, more decisive decisions. The former president's strength is his knowledge and comprehension of the issues facing American and the world. I doubt there is anyone who can match his mastery of the issues that our next president will face. Senator Clinton could have no better advisor. Life is about hard choices and compromises, I've decided that electing the person best prepared to lead our country forward is more important than worrying about the Clintons amassing too much political power. I believe they both have the best interests of this country at heart, and I'm comfortable with my decision. I believe that another four or eight years of Clinton leadership will produce the kind of real change that will benefit all of us.

This article relates to what we are learning in school becuase it deals with American History. We have learned about the birth of our nation and how it progressed along the years. We are also learning about the amendments. The Amendments are the laws that shape our country into what it is today.

This article is about the 22nd amendment and the Clintons. since Bill Clinton was president for 8 years, (two terms), would the 22nd amendment in this case because his wife is trying to run for the presidency. Some people think Hillary is running for Bill and her running would be like Bill running. Would the 22 amendment apply to a husband and wife teams as much as it does for individuals? The intention of this amendment might be interpretid in a few different ways. Some people are saying that this would mean a third term for the Clinton family because they are husband and wife. Although this might be true, the author of the article is also stating that Hillary might be our best option. There are many arguments as to why Hillary may or may not be our best as a leader of our country.